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That’s my lesson for taking a vacation: vacation will kill you.

Elon Musk

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.
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Business Company Entrepreneur Investment Money Myself People
Weighing too much on someone’s talent and not someone’s personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.
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Goodness Heart Personality Talent
The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.
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Accomplishment Business Country Culture Innovation Success
The path to the CEO’s office should not be through the CFO’s office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.
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CEO Department Design Engineer Market Office Path
Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
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Business Enough Failure Innovation Option
No I don’t ever give up. I would have to be dead or completely incapacitated.
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You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.
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I started SpaceX with the expectation of failure.
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Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
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Broken Business Failure Need Product
You shouldn’t do things differently just because they’re different. They need to be better.
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It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done.
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My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.
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Commitment Failure Mentality
I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
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Die Humour ImpAction Mars
Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
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Alternative Change Disaster Embrace Inspirational People
You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that’s wrong with it and fix it.
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You should be innovating so fast that you’re invalidating your prior patents.
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